What other blogs do folk here recommend? I’ll recommend two: Greta Christina’s blog which talks about sexual politics, atheism, skepticism, and politics in general, and FiveThirtyEight which covers the inside baseball of Washington DC according to a baseball statistician.
I’ll resist my urge to dump every blog in my feed reader, and just give the five that LW readers might not be aware of:
The Endeavour: Math, programming, statistics, and productivity.
The Universe of Discourse: Math, programming, science. Humorous and very high quality, although infrequently updated. The author really needs to be subsidized to post more often.
Acephalous: Travails of a young English professor.
If you enjoy FiveThirtyEight, Andrew Tanenbaum’s electoral-vote.com is in a somewhat similar vein (and for the CS nerds here, yes, that’s the Dr. Tanenbaum you’re thinking of). It’s currently somewhat inactive though, as he only actively updates it during major election cycles.
What other blogs do folk here recommend? I’ll recommend two: Greta Christina’s blog which talks about sexual politics, atheism, skepticism, and politics in general, and FiveThirtyEight which covers the inside baseball of Washington DC according to a baseball statistician.
I’ll resist my urge to dump every blog in my feed reader, and just give the five that LW readers might not be aware of:
The Endeavour: Math, programming, statistics, and productivity.
The Universe of Discourse: Math, programming, science. Humorous and very high quality, although infrequently updated. The author really needs to be subsidized to post more often.
Acephalous: Travails of a young English professor.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Andrew Gelman’s blog.
Seth Roberts: Self-experimentation, health, and musings about the state of modern science.
Awesome links! Thanks so much.. I’m going to try the Shangri-la diet immediately. Such impulsiveness probably automatically exposes me here …
If you enjoy FiveThirtyEight, Andrew Tanenbaum’s electoral-vote.com is in a somewhat similar vein (and for the CS nerds here, yes, that’s the Dr. Tanenbaum you’re thinking of). It’s currently somewhat inactive though, as he only actively updates it during major election cycles.
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ <---- Blog of David Brin, science fiction writer. Talks a lot about politics. http://atheistethicist.blogspot.com/ <---- also recommended